Clinging
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158 examples of Clinging in a sentence
The tension, however, between her and Van Heflin is pretty good; he's an up and coming engineer and certainly not going to commit himself to her, a
clinging
neurotic who's a nurse for the suicidal wife of Heflin's employer played by Raymond Massey.
In this movie it looks like she is desperately trying to recreate being stoned, funny and yet still managing to be cute while
clinging
desperately to a mid-20 something youthfulness.
I found myself
clinging
passionately to its every moment.
There was a large pink drip
clinging
to Gail's cheek whilst she wrestled with the her yellow contact lenses, had she been possessed by a demonic blancmange?
The D-Mark would, initially at least, appreciate sharply - with dire consequences for German industry, and for the "pegged" and semi-pegged economies who will find themselves
clinging
to a rocket.
These shared values are the glue that binds governments together in the recognition that
clinging
to pure self-interest is no longer reasonable when common concerns call for a common strategy.
What is even more insulting to African women is that the AU bypassed them to pick men whose commitment to democracy and human rights may be worse than that of Laurent Gbagbo, the man
clinging
to the Ivorian presidency despite losing the election.
Simply paying lip service to change, while
clinging
to outdated modes of working, is not an option.
To be sure, reforms are – and always will be – subject to harsh criticism, with old Kemalist elites
clinging
to the unitary and secular republican tradition and Kurdish nationalists seeking to eliminate all expressions of Turkish national identity from the political culture.
By
clinging
stubbornly to the system they dominate and barring the door to new entrants, they have left those outside little choice.
For both men, the goal of
clinging
to power was a top priority.
The goal of
clinging
to power remains the priority, and risk-aversion the main guideline.
Arab Myths and RealitiesWASHINGTON, DC – With Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt – widely considered to have one of the region’s most stable regimes until only recently – and Colonel Muammar Qaddafi
clinging
to power in Libya, there is no clear end in sight to the turmoil sweeping across the Arab world.
Instead of
clinging
to outdated assumptions and rigid ideas, the West should work with China to reform the existing global order in ways that benefit all.
The eastern members – most notably Poland and the Baltic states – are
clinging
fast to the EU in the face of Russian aggression.
In any case, this year promises to be interesting – and harrowing, if you happen to be a dictator
clinging
to power in an oil-exporting country.
A breakthrough appears to be at hand, though all the parties still seem to be
clinging
to their traditional positions.
People
clinging
to buses.
More probably, while we try to compare the relative power of the West and the East, we are
clinging
to an obsolete vocabulary.
Asian central banks are still nervously
clinging
to the dollar.
Several Indian businesses, especially larger firms, resisted,
clinging
to benefits protectionist measures introduced under Nehru.
The world’s changing before them and they’re
clinging
to something in the past that’s not sustainable.”
While the rhetoric of commitment to the round remains, in practice there has been a surrender to defensive lobbies
clinging
to the status quo.
For example, visitors and residents alike have long thought of Hong Kong as a beautiful city
clinging
to the South China coast.
But
clinging
to the past uncritically is probably better than allowing the past to dominate the present.
For the most part, they have even refrained from denouncing the perpetrators,
clinging
to a sham neutrality or taking shelter in the fog of "imperfect information."
All of the relevant players – including those, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that are not sitting at the table but whose presence is very much felt – are
clinging
to their initial positions.
Too many governments in Africa are
clinging
to state telecommunications monopolies as an easy source of revenue (or still less sensibly, as a perceived source of a few hundred or thousand jobs), while inadvertently strangling the introduction of new technologies.
Clinging
to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive.
Is it competitive enough to prevent discredited leaders from
clinging
to power?
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